[MUSIC: “Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23” – P. Tchaikovsky, arranged and conducted by Bernard Herrmann]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen: the director of the Mercury Theatre and star of these broadcasts, Orson Welles …
ORSON WELLES: We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this country was being watched closely by beings different than normal man and yet as mortal as he.
We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
With infinite complacence people went to and fro over the nation about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their dominion over this small spinning fragment of solar driftwood which by chance or design man has inherited out of the dark mystery of Time and Space.
Yet across an immense ethical gulf, minds that are as different from our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle, intellectuals, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this country with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
In the thirteenth year of the twenty-first century came the great disillusionment. It was in October when the attack plans reached fruition. Obamacare was a reality…
Please, do continue!
Obama Care may end up like the Martians…killed by the bugs.
@2 zzyzx:
+1!
@zzyzx – or we’ll be the ones killed by germs and crappy healthcare.
Frankj was strangely absent for a while, then the obamacare website is all screwed up, then Frankj comes back and says he knows how to fix the website because he’s awesome.
Or does he know how to fix it because he screwed it up in the first place? (for which he should get a medal)
And how much of that 600+ million dollars that was supposed to be spent developing the website did he secretly transfer to his nuke-the-moon-with-dinosaurs-with-rocket-launchers project? (and if not, why not?)
Hmmm?